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Wednesday, December 14, 2016

all the way up to 11 / hele vejen op til 11

ALL
THE WAY UP TO 11

»So,
let me get this straight: the reason for your limping the first two
or three steps after you get up from whatever position you were
sitting in is that you expect your left ankle and knee to hurt but in
reality they don't.«

»Something
like that. And I am practising getting old, being old, I guess,
subconsciously.«

»Which
explains your various experiments with how you picture a pain ridden
arthritic body would carry itself, or ...?«

»Well,
it's better to be prepared, I'd say. Maybe I can learn something
about where I should place my furniture before I get to that broken
down state.«

»Who
says you'll ever get old?«

»That's
true. Maybe I already am, in my mind.«

»Nah, your mind is old
because you're a boring git.” K. flips a cigar stump after a magpie
hitting it in the head and it explodes. »You
see? Magpies are made of gunpowder.«
He reaches out and grabs one of the tail feather and attaches
it to his yellow top hat. Now he looks like a hollywoodian metal
rocker.

»Now
you look like a hollywoodian metal rocker,«
I say merely reporting what I see – or what I interpret my visual
input to be in a 21st century Western cultural concept.

»Go
get a new ailment,« he
replies and plugs in his suddenly manifested Gibson Flying V guitar
and turns up the amp that came with it. All the way to 11. «Hey,
can you show me that E chord again?«

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Parallels Published

Yettobenamedfreepress has published a book of my parallel haiku-ish - or based - verse.

Parallels Published

Parallels by Johannes S. H. Bjerg is now available from Createspace.

Parallels is a unique take on English Language Haiku. The poems are formatted side by side leaving the reader a choice, to read the pieces as a complete poem or as fragments of poems, each adding to the other. On first read the book may appear as a surrealist work, but after careful study Bjerg's humanity shines through. A must for haiku lovers. A brilliant example of the evolution of short-verse.